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The Freeman
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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In New Pittsburg, Ohio, two white men, Bob Butts and George Bridgewater, forced George Donovan, a Black man, to dance at gunpoint and mocked him. Donovan shot them in response, fatally wounding both. They died in a Columbus hospital. Donovan was jailed in Logan, unable to post bond, with the article arguing for his acquittal.
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Bob Butts and George Bridgewater, two white men living in New Pittsburg, Hocking county, pulled out their guns and made George Donovan, colored, do a clog dance. Butts and Bridgewater, after emptying their revolvers, began to jeer the colored man, when he turned and fired five shots at his annoyers. Butts was shot in the left lung, Bridgewater was shot through the bowels and stomach. Both men were brought to a hospital in Columbus, Ohio, where they died within an hour. Donovan had his preliminary trial at Logan and was bound over under $2,000 bond, which he could not furnish, and he was lodged in the county jail at Logan.
If this man is not acquitted he will not get what he deserves. We feel quite sure that if the case was reversed the man would not remain long behind the bars. Goose and gander require about the same kind of sauce.
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New Pittsburg, Hocking County, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio; Logan, Ohio
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Two white men armed and forced a Black man to dance and jeered him; he shot them in retaliation, killing both; he was arrested and jailed pending trial, with the article advocating for his acquittal due to self-defense and racial double standards.